Deciding what packages to put on an install CD
Thomas Lange
lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Fri Nov 22 11:07:40 CET 2002
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:12:35 -0800, "Bruce Edge" <bedge at troikanetworks.com> said:
> I want to grab all specified and dependant packages from the
> package lists in package_config/* to put on the install CD.
> This would allow one to install any of the same classes
> supported by the regular FAI install. How can I generate a list
> of all the dependant packages? ie: a list of all the packages
> that the specified packages in package_config/* depend on?
Try something using apt-get and grep, sed or perl. -s is very good if
you want to see which packages will be installed.
apt-get -s install <list of packages>
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Gruss Thomas
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